Associate Professor of
History
History Department
351 Armitage Hall
311 North Fifth Street
Camden, NJ 08102
(856) 225-6647
shankman@camden.rutgers.edu
Research Associate, McNeil
Center for Early American Studies,
Editorial Board, Journal of the Early Republic, 2007-2012
Seminar Coordinator,
2007-2008
University Seminar on Early
American History and Culture
Ph.D.,
Princeton University—July, 1997
M.A.,
B.A.,
“Democracy in Pennsylvania: Political, Social, and Economic Arguments in the Jeffersonian Party, 1790-1820” (Director: John M. Murrin)
Crucible of American
Democracy: The Struggle to Fuse Egalitarianism and Capitalism in Jeffersonian
Pennsylvania
(Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2004) American Political Thought
Series
“`Perpetual Motion—Perpetual Change—A Boundless Ocean
Without A Shore’: Democracy in
“
“`A
New Thing on Earth’: Alexander Hamilton, Pro-Manufacturing Republicans, and the
Democratization of American Political Economy,” Journal of the Early Republic 23 (2003) 323-352
Received the Program in
Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) award for best journal article of
2003 treating early American economic history
Received the Society for
Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) Ralph D. Gray Prize for best
article published in the Journal of the
Early Republic in 2003
“Malcontents
and Tertium Quids: The Battle to Define Democracy in Jeffersonian
Philadelphia,” Journal of the Early
Republic 19 (1999) 43-72
“Economic
Policy, 1784-1840,” in Michael A. Morrison ed., Encyclopedia of
“War
and Diplomacy in the Atlantic World, 1754-1829,” in Paul Finkelman ed., Encyclopedia of the New American Nation
(Thomson Gale, 2006)
“The
“African
Americans in the American Revolution,” in Keith Krawczynski ed., History in Dispute: The American Revolution
(Thomson Gale, 2004)
“The
Founders’ Political Principles,” in Keith Krawczynski ed., History in Dispute: The American Revolution (Thomson Gale, 2004)
“Nationalism
and the American Revolution,” in Keith Krawczynski ed., History in Dispute: The American Revolution (Thomson Gale, 2004)
Taming Democracy: “The
People”, the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution, Terry Bouton in William and Mary Quarterly (forthcoming)
Founding Corporate Power in
Early National Philadelphia, Andrew M. Schocket in The
American Historical Review (forthcoming)
Financial Founding Fathers:
The Men Who Made America Rich, by Robert E. Wright and David J. Cowen in Business History Review 81 (2007)
349-352
The Many Faces of Alexander
Hamilton: The Life and Legacy of America’s Most Elusive Founding Father eds., Douglas Ambrose and
Robert W.T. Martin in Journal of American
History 93 (2007) 1219-1220
Establishing Congress: The
Removal to Washington D.C. and the Election of 1800, edited by Kenneth R.
Bowling and Donald R. Kennon in The
Historian 69 (2007) 100-101
The Hidden Cost of Economic
Development: The Biological Standard of Living in Antebellum
Benjamin Franklin’s Humor, by Paul M. Zall in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and
Biography 130 (2006) 423-425
“The
Revolution Heard Round the World,” a review of Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World,
eds., Eliga H. Gould and Peter S. Onuf in Common-Place
6 (2006)
Moral Visions and Material
Ambitions:
Ratifying the Republic:
Antifederalists and Federalists in Constitutional Time, by David J. Siemers in Journal of American History 89 (2003)
1002-1003
The Noblest Minds: Fame,
Honor and the American Founding, ed. Peter McNamara and Power versus Liberty: Madison, Hamilton, Wilson, and Jefferson by
James H. Read in Journal of the Early
Republic 20 (2000) 719-723
The American Counter
Revolution: A Retreat From Liberty, 1783-1800, by Larry Tise in Journal of the Early Republic 20 (2000) 140-143
Transatlantic Radicals and
the Early American Republic, by Michael Durey in Journal of
the Early Republic 17 (1997) 703-05
“`We
Must not Despair of the Republic’: Second Generation Jeffersonians on Political
Economy, Slavery and the State”—Columbia Seminar for Early American Studies,
Columbia University, December 13, 2005
“`A
New Epoch Has Arisen’: Political Economy, Slavery, and the National
Republicans,”—Washington D.C. Area Seminar for Early American Studies,
University of Maryland, College Park, December 6, 2005
“`Politically
Free, Commercially Slaves’: Second Generation Jeffersonians, the New Epoch, and
an Origin of the Positive Good Thesis,”—Society for Historians of the Early
American Republic, Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, July 21-24, 2005
“`That Damned Burr Missed: Alexander Hamilton in Antebellum America,”—What If? Counterfactualism and Early American History: A Conference Honoring Professor John M. Murrin, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, March 30-31, 2001
“`Perpetual Motion—Perpetual Change—A Boundless Ocean Without a Shore’: Democracy in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania, 1800-1820,”—The Bitting Conference, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, February 22-23, 2000
“1800: The Significance of Thomas Jefferson and the Second American Revolution,”—Presidents Day Lecture, Oakland University, February 20, 2000
“Hamilton and His Historians: The Social and Cultural Aims of High Federalist Political Economy,”—Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Annual Conference, Lexington, KT, July 15-17, 1999
“Democratic Conflict, Economic Development, and the Rise of the Nationalists in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania, 1799-1820,”—Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Annual Conference, Harpers Ferry, VA, July 14-16, 1998
“The Political Economy of Pennsylvania Jeffersonianism: Moderates, Radicals, and the Absence of Consensus, 1787-1815,”—Institute of Early American History and Culture, First Annual Conference, Ann Arbor, June 4, 1995
Sessions Chaired and Commentary
Commentator, “Southern Slavery and the Northern Democrat,”
SHEAR,
Chair, “American Political Institutions in the Early
Republic,” Organization of American Historians Annual Conference,
Chair, “Federal
Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) 2003 award for best journal article in early
American economic history, 2004
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) Ralph D. Gray Prize for best article
published in the Journal of the Early Republic in 2003, 2004
Book Crucible of
American Democracy: The Struggle to Fuse Egalitarianism and Capitalism in
Jeffersonian
Pennsylvania selection of the History Book Club, 2004
Mellon
Fellowship in the Humanities, 1992-1997
Princeton
University Fellowship, 1994-1996
Association
of Princeton Graduate Alumni Summer Research Grant, 1996
Associate
Professor,
Assistant
Professor,
Editorial
Board, Journal of the Early Republic,
2007-2012
Research
Associate,
Assistant
Professor, Northeastern Illinois University, 2002-2005
Director
of Graduate Studies, Northeastern Illinois University, 2004-2005
Assistant
Professor, Grand Valley State University, 1998-2002
Lecturer,
Princeton University, 1997-1998
Adjunct
Professor, The College of New Jersey, 1997
Teaching Assistant, Princeton University, 1994-1995
Manuscript
Reviewer: Oxford University Press, John Wiley and Sons, Journal of American History, Journal
of the Early Republic, William and
Mary Quarterly, The Historian,
American Philosphical Society
Editorial
Board: Journal of the Early Republic,
2007-2012
Predoctoral
Fellowship Selection Committee:
Program
Committee: Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) 2008
annual conference,
Local
Arrangments Committee: SHEAR 2008 annual conference,
University Service
2007, Instructor for
MARCH-Clemente Course: The Story of American Freedom
2006, Workshop Leader, “
2006, Seminar Leader
MARCH-NJCH Summer Seminar
2005--, Member